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The Afghan woman ran down the street towards her friend’s apartment as soon as she heard the news: the White House had publicly weighed in on her family’s case. Surely her child, who she says was abducted by a U.S. Marine more than a year ago, would now be returned, she thought. She was so […]
Congress has failed so far to create a path to residency for Afghans who worked alongside U.S. soldiers in America’s longest war, pushing into limbo tens of thousands of refugees who fled Taliban control more than two years ago and now live in the United States.
CNN — A coalition of US veterans groups is calling on President Joe Biden to intervene in the case of an Afghan national who fought alongside US forces and is now facing deportation after being detained at the
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Col. Salim Faqiri, 32, flew Black Hawk Helicopters for the Afghan Air Force. He and his family have been resettled in Phoenix. Adriana Zehbrauskas for NPR hide caption toggle caption Adriana Zehbrauskas for NPR PHOENIX — Veterans of the war in Afghanistan say that without passage of the Afghan Adjustment Act, tens of thousands of […]
CNN — A group of retired ambassadors, all of whom served as chief of mission at the US Embassy in Afghanistan, have written a letter to congressional leaders pushing them to include the Afghan Adjustment Act in the omnibus spending bill.
Islamabad — The U.S. special envoy for women, girls and human rights in Afghanistan has sharply criticized the ruling Islamist Taliban for organizing public floggings of people, including women, accused of “moral crimes” such as theft and adultery. “This is both appalling and a dangerous sign that the Taliban are becoming more defiant in showing […]
The young Afghan couple raced to the airport in Kabul, clutching their baby girl close amid the chaotic withdrawal of American troops last year.The baby had been rescued two years earlier from the rubble of a U.S. military raid that killed her parents and five siblings. After months in a U.S. military hospital, she had […]
By JULIET LINDERMAN, CLAIRE GALOFARO and MARTHA MENDOZA October 20, 2022 GMT
An Afghan family’s daunting resettlement, and the local parents who want to help October 7, 2022 at 1:17 p.m. EDT Mohammad, and Zar, who are refugees from Afghanistan, look at an ultrasound photo of their baby at home in Alexandria on Sept. 29. (Shuran Huang for The Washington Post) They learned they were expecting their […]